Perfume Images & Adverts Archives

We found this amusing French postcard from a bygone era on the Bay. A woman receives a parcel labeled "perfumery" in French and instead of a perfume bottle finds a redolent fish. The missive is dated 1902. Have a...

Adweek decided to bite the bullet and tell what's what. You might not agree with everything they say but at least it's an attempt to look more closely at the evolutions of the celebrity fragrance market. In a way...

Dolce & Gabbana are re-enlivening the imagery for their bestseller Light Blue with new, popular poster girl Bianca Balti posing in a retro white bathing suit, like a throwback to 1950s Italian bathing beauties. The model has lately been...

After announcing the new perfume by pin-up and "burlesque queen" Dita Von Teese yesterday, here is the advert for FleurTeese in which the celebrity is dressed in a 1950s vintage purple and white floral print dress, her nails done in a...

Prada this time did not ease up on press materials for the new Candy L'Eau, the latest version of Candy. They've published a real book in thick, heavy, frayed paper - as if it had been opened with a...

"In celebration of Valentine's Day, the International Fragrance Association of North America (IFRANA) today released the first in a series of short documentary-style films. "Designing a Fragrance: From Idea to Scent" features a few of the industries’ renowned scientists...

I took this picture yesterday night. I have walked so many times by this café/restaurant rue Hautefeuille which I often admire for its medieval feel, low ceilings, cramped quarters and general charming crookedness with this sense that it has...

An admittedly further refined experience of cherry-blossom gazing during day-time is cherry-blossom gazing at night known as "Yozakura" in Japanese. Paper lanterns are suspended so as to highlight the flowers and prolong the joys of floral contemplation into the...

In Namibia, Himba women clean themselves like the Romans did, with oil and by scraping their skins. They permanently wear a mixture of ash, ochre earth and oil. The ochre powder itself is scented, according to Heat, Dust, Dreams:...

This place would smell of water and wet stone and feel incredibly invigorating and fresh. These are the main invisible olfactory elements you can suss out from the image. It would also be filled with deafening sound... ...

Beautiful, interesting pictures are good to look at. Teahouse Tetsu whose authorship is ascribed to both Terunobu Fujimori and Nobumichi Ochima is a high in the art of cherry-blossom gazing. It looks like a fairy-tale house perched in the air,...

Parfums d'Orsay have branched out into beauty territory with a so-called cosmetic version of Tilleul a naturalistic linden blossom composition signed by perfumer Olivia Giacobetti who went back to the drawing board for the new, alcohol-free version enriched with wellness...

Atelier Cologne have started to unveil their latest composition called Mistral Patchouli, which will launch more officially from January 2013. Named after a strong oceanic wind blowing in the coastal region of the south of France, it is described as a...

TV channel Arte will feature a documentary on the house of Lubin entitled Secrets de Parfumeurs by Maja Dielhenn on December 22, 2012 at 8 pm. The film follows the creation of a perfume inspired by the myths of...